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the medicated syrup. The removal of old combs and honey, 

 forcing the bees to build new, thus to remove germs would also 

 abet the cure. 



Black brood is not ropy like foul brood, and the brood 

 shows afifection earlier. It is serious in New York, and is 

 treated precisely as is foul brood. The bees are transferred 

 to other hives on starters of foundation, and this repeated in 

 four days. 



ENEMIES OF BEES. 



Swift was no mean entomologist, as is shown in the fol- 

 lowing stanza : 



" The little fleas that do us tease, 

 Have lesser fleas to bite them, 

 And these again have lesser fleas, 

 And so ad infinitum. ^^ 



Bees are no exception to this law, as they have to brave 

 the attacks of reptiles, birds, and other insects. In fact, they 

 are beset with perils at home and perils abroad, perils by night 

 and perils by day. 



THE BEE-MOTH — GALLERIA MEI,I<ONEI,I«A. 



This insect, formerly known as G. cereana, belongs to the 

 family of snout-moths, Pyralidse. This snout is not the 

 tongue, but the palpi, which fact was not known by Mr. lyang- 

 stroth, who was usually so accurate, as he essayed to correct 

 Dr. Harris, who stated correctly that the tongue was "very 

 short and hardly visible." This family includes the destruc- 

 tive hop-moth, and the noxious meal and clover moths, and its 

 members are very readily recognized by their usually long 

 palpi, the so-called snouts. The family is now more restricted, 

 and named Galleriidse. 



The eggs of the bee-moth are white, globular, and very 

 small. These are usually pushed into crevices by the female 

 moth as she extrudes them, which she can easily do by aid of 

 her spy-glass-like ovipositor. They may be laid in the hive, 

 in the crevice underneath it, or about the entrance. Soon 

 these eggs hatch, when the gray, dirty-looking caterpillars, 

 with brown heads, seek the comb on which they feed. To pro- 

 tect themselves better from the bees, they wrap themselves ia 



